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Detailed Description

TeX Live uses uses its own classification of TeX packages which can be automated and used by packaging systems in various distributions. The packaging metadata that upstream provides allows to distinguish doc, source and runtime files which could then be packaged separately.

The package contains repo file for yum which contains TeX Live with binaries. After installing the release package do:

# yum clean all
# yum install texlive

if you don't have texlive already installed. Otherwise you can update your old TeX Live 2007 installation like:

# yum clean all
# yum update

This will install the basic TeX Live scheme.

User Experience

Users could use exactly the part of TeX they need without wasting disc space.

Dependencies

need to do a license audit - DONE

need mass review for all packages before this feature is completed - DONE

import of all of the ~1600 packages need to be finished

all of the packages need to be built

Contingency Plan

Stay stuck with TeX Live 2007.

Documentation

TODO

Release Notes

TeX Live 2012 is now introduced with improved packaging scheme that saves download bandwidth and disc size. It is based on upstream packaging metadata and an automated license audit is performed. Packages are now composed from schemes and collections to define a package set user needs to install to use a particular TeX Live feature.